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John P. Cook correspondence with Thomas C. Durant, Washington, D.C., 1856-1857

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thing is all over, and they are welcome to the floor if they can get it - 
They are in a perfect flutter to-night and want us to [neouage?] someway to get it up again - 
[Ashmau?] & myself both tell no, "You are not to be trusted" and we are going to stay & see it out and play the same game on them that they have been playing - 
Well, you ask what can be done - I will tell you I have [Dick?] Richardson of Ill now [illegible] [homefed?] into he work, and he swears the Bill shall [foap?], and that Minnesota shout - 
This plan is to get the [illegible] Bill out of the way to-morrow and [illegible] day, and on Monday get up our Bill and put it through 
This can be done, for when Old [Dick?] [talked?] a thing in earnest he is found to win - 
[We?] & [Ashmau?] breakfast with [illegible] Sunday morning, and

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thing is all over, and they are welcome to the floor if they can get it - They are in a perfect flutter to-night and want us to [neouage?] someway to get it up again - [Ashmau?] & myself both tell no, "You are not to be trusted" and we are going to stay & see it out and play the same game on them that they have been playing - Well, you ask what can be done - I will tell you I have [Dick?] Richardson of Ill now [illegible] [homefed?] into he work, and he swears the Bill shall [foap?], and that Minnesota shout - This plan is to get the [illegible] Bill out of the way to-morrow and [illegible] day, and on Monday get up our Bill and put it through This can be done, for when Old [Dick?] [talked?] a thing in earnest he is found to win - [We?] & [Ashmau?] breakfast with [illegible] Sunday morning, and